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Colony Ship Eschaton

10 books in series

4.5 out of 5 stars
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Recovery of a Colony Ship Publisher's Summary

Michael and Jamie live in Dome 17. The last place safe for humans, or any life, on a dying Earth. They are adventurers who have explored other domes, but everywhere else is dead. Will Dome 17 meet the same fate? The committee has a risky plan to try out unproven technologies: a faster than light scout ship, and teleportation. Both technologies have severe limits. Only two people can be carried aboard those FTL scout ships for a one way journey. Teleportation can only work when a receiving pad is at the target location. So can they make both these technologies work to save the last of humanity? A century before, the people of Earth had built gigantic colony ships with enclosed habitats. They were filled with flora and fauna and people. These ships were launched into space knowing it would take generations to reach other solar systems. Those space pioneers would live out their lives in transition to a new world. But the colony ship program was considered a dismal failure. All of the colony ships were considered lost. Will Michael and Jamie travel to one of the colony ships? Will it be a derelict? Or will it be a chance for a new home for humanity? What will they find as they try the recovery of a colony ship?

Book 1

Recovery of a Colony Ship

Colony Ship Eschaton

By:
John Thornton

Narrated by:
Alexander Doddy

Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins

Unabridged

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Michael and Jamie live in Dome 17. The last place safe for humans, or any life, on a dying Earth. They are adventurers who have explored other domes, but everywhere else is dead. Will Dome 17 meet the same fate? The committee has a risky plan to try out unproven technologies: a faster than light scout ship, and teleportation. Both technologies have severe limits. Only two people can be carried aboard those FTL scout ships for a one way journey.

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Book 2

Exploring the Colony Ship: After Recovery

Colony Ship Eschaton

By:
John Thornton

Narrated by:
Alexander Doddy

Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins

Unabridged

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The Eschaton had been designed to hold numerous and diverse immense biological habitats: flora, fauna, and everything needed to terraform a new world. It also carried thousands of people in suspended animation. The ship was designed to be tended by crews who would live out their lives in the journey between worlds. That journey would only be completed after several generations had lived and died while in transit. That was the plan. But something happened. The people from Dome 17 have reached The Eschaton, but what will they find in those habitats? What systems are still functioning?

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Book 3

Unknowns of the Colony Ship

Colony Ship Eschaton, Book 3

By:
John Thornton

Narrated by:
Bev Kassis

Length: 6 hrs

Unabridged

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In this third book in the Colony Ship Eschaton series, Jamie and Michael continue to discover how vast and unknown the old ship is. Why do some of the artificial intelligence systems seem to work, but others do not? Who is the unknown that sent a dismembered body through the transport system? How will the refugees from Dome 17 interact with the people who were born inside the habitats of the Eschaton? What threats to the very survival of the people exist in the unknown reaches of the Colony Ship Eschaton? And personally, can Jamie and Michael survive these unknown threats?

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Book 4

Hunting on the Colony Ship

Colony Ship Eschaton, Book 4

By:
John Thornton

Narrated by:
Bev Kassis

Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

Unabridged

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The giant Colony Ship Eschaton has numerous habitats with animals, plants, and people, all of which should be in balance as it makes its generations long journey to another solar system. One of those people is Tamar, a young woman who was born on board and is growing up in the town of Media. Tamar is gifted with machines, but that is not a blessing in the town where she lives. She has a frightful encounter in the night and is forced to flee everything she knows. She hunts for her freedom, and she hunts for answers to who she is.

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Book 5

Mysteries on the Colony Ship

Colony Ship Eschaton, Book 5

By:
John Thornton

Narrated by:
Bev Kassis

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Unabridged

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Something mysterious is happening. The giant colony Ship Eschaton is in the midst of its generations-long journey to another solar system. But in Habitat One: Coastal Plains, two strange bodies have been found. There are rumors of a lurking visitor. Is anyone safe? The artificial intelligence systems still are not functioning as expected. Now more then ever, the AIs are needed. The people born on the ship as well as the refugees from Dome 17 are struggling to survive, and to learn more about the huge colony ship and its various habitats. But what do these mysteries mean?

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Book 6

Discoveries on the Colony Ship

Colony Ship Eschaton, Book 6

By:
John Thornton

Narrated by:
Bev Kassis

Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins

Unabridged

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On the derelict colony ship, things are being discovered. What will that mean for the refugees from Dome 17? Will they be helpful in restoring the technology of the Eschaton? Will the Domers finally find a way to repair their high tech equipment? Or will these discoveries lead to more tension between those born on board and the newcomers? Tensions mount as a major crisis happens. Who will survive when old adversaries return to seek retribution? And who will not?

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Book 7

Building the Colony Ship

Colony Ship Eschaton, Book 7

By:
John Thornton

Narrated by:
Alexander Doddy

Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins

Unabridged

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Jamie and Michael are asked to help track down something that is destroying food in Habitat One of the Colony Ship Eschaton. What they find is a secret history of the ship itself. Cut off from everyone, except the dog, Liduma, Jamie and Michael race to find all the pieces of this suppressed history. But something else is seeking it as well and does not want Jamie and Michael to succeed. Will they make it back to report what they have learned about the building of the colony ship?

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Book 9

Invasion on the Colony Ship

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Book 10

Destination of the Colony Ship

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